Clean Water Protection Act
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The Clean Water Protection Act (H.R. 2169) is a bill currently in the United States Congress specifically in the United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, a subset of the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. If passed it will redefine "fill material" to not include mining "waste" under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
It was introduced by Frank Pallone and Chris Shays for the 110th congress and as of April 20, 2008 has 133 co-sponsors.[1] Several environmental groups such as Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Sierra Club, as well as many others, support the legislation primarily as an effort to curb Mountaintop removal mining[2] [3].
